My UN-Processed Life: Day 16 of My UN-Processed Life! Final Clean Out and Popcorn! March 29, 2014

Day 16 of My UN-Processed Life! Final Clean Out and Popcorn! March 29, 2014

By the evening of my 16th day I had completely cleaned out the food panty, cabinets, refrigerator, and finally the freezer! If you have been reading my blog you will remember this post about cleaning out the food pantry: My next stop was home, where I proceeded to clean out my food pantry and get rid of all processed foods! I will admit that I did leave my microwave popcorn in my pantry until Saturday(about 2 days)! For some reason this was the hardest for me to give up! I did not actually ever eat any of it, but for the sake of honesty do want to add that I did not get rid of it the first night! I will write more about what I did end up doing with it later in another post! Just from the clean out of my pantry I removed 3 trash bags full of items- that had either already been open(which I would not want to give to someone) or had expired! I could not believe how much food I had in there that I had been wasteful with and had let expire! I had 6(by the time I finished my refrigerator and freezer it was 20bags- Wow) grocery bags of items to give away to a food pantry or someone who might need them! FYI:I worked on my freezer and refrigerator Saturday, so items would not spoil before I could get them to the people who wanted them!

Well below is a picture of my beloved popcorn! :( I have thought allot about why this was such a big deal for me to give my popcorn away and the only thing I came up with was, no matter what diet or program I had tried I would always eat popcorn before bed! Just seemed to keep me full during the night and I just love popcorn! I had read an article by the Food Babe about all the things they put in microwave popcorn and knew it was not healthy for me! http://foodbabe.com/2013/11/12/microwave-popcorn/ So on Saturday afternoon, I reluctantly put my popcorn in the bags with all the other items to give away! I remembered how my mom use to make up popcorn on the stove top and decided to give it a try! My mom use to use vegetable oil to pop the corn and then we would melt butter and pour over top of it! I kept thinking vegetable oil can not be good for me either so I decided to try coconut oil for popping the corn! All I can say is WOW! Not only did it smell amazing while I was popping the corn, it tasted amazing! And it was so good we did not even need to add butter to it! I could not believe I had even made a big deal about giving up my microwave popcorn! My son tasted it and said it made his taste buds explode! This was a total Win! I am in love with my Coconut Oil Popcorn!